Peoria Lunaire Performs Tonight

12/03/2014 11:16 AM

Peoria Lunaire, the Bradley University faculty chamber ensemble, will give its fall performance on Wednesday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Admission is free.

The ensemble, which debuted two years ago as a permanent faculty performance group, will present compositions by Sebastian Currier, Carl Schimmel, Joseph Scardetta, and David Wilde.

The faculty members of Peoria Lunaire are Marcia Henry Liebenow, violin; Timothy Archbold, cello; Dr. Kyle Dzapo, flute; Dr. Stephen Heinemann, clarinet; and Dr. John Orfe, piano.

Two works will be performed by Peoria Lunaire subsets.

An Illustrated Ontogeny of the Flower Snark, by Carl Schimmel, music professor at Illinois State University, will be presented by John Orfe and Stephen Heinemann. Timothy Archbold will perform David Wilde’s dramatic Cellist from Sarajevo.

Joseph Scardetta graduated from Bradley in 2010 with a major in music composition, and currently resides in Aurora, Colorado. His new work Fractal, to be premiered on this concert, was composed for Peoria Lunaire.

The concert will close with Sebastian Currier’s Static, which in 2007 received the Grawemeyer Award, the most prestigious award in new-music composition.

For more information, contact Dr. Stephen Heinemann at 677-2603.